Docker Steps into Large-Scale Container Orchestration with Conductant Purchase | Linux Today

Docker Steps into Large-Scale Container Orchestration with Conductant Purchase

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 5, 2016

On Thursday, Docker took the next step in addressing container orchestration at scale, announcing that it has acquired Conductant, a company that was in the process of building out the Apache Aurora container orchestration software. Aurora is based, at least in its general architecture, on the Borg software, built by Google to manage its own container operations.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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